There are many ways of arrangement, such as alphabetical arrangement by author's surname, publication time of documents, etc. , you need to adopt different sorting methods according to different publication types.

1. Ordinary books

For ordinary books, you can adopt the following two ways:

Sort by author's initials and publication year.

This is a common sorting method, that is, the author's surname is arranged alphabetically, and the names with the same surname are arranged alphabetically. If the surnames of two authors have the same initials, they are arranged in alphabetical order. Add a comma after the author's name, then the year of publication, and finally the title, place of publication and publishing house.

In alphabetical order by author's surname.

This arrangement is relatively simple, as long as the references are arranged alphabetically by the author's surname.

2. Journal articles

For journal articles, you can adopt the following two ways:

According to the alphabetical order of the author's surname and the order of publication year.

In this arrangement, the initials of the author's surname are arranged alphabetically, and the names with the same initials are arranged alphabetically. If the surnames of two authors have the same initials, they are arranged in alphabetical order. Add a comma after the author's name, then the year of publication, and finally the title of the article and the name of the journal.

3. Periodical order (volume, year, issue).

In this arrangement, the volume number, year number and issue number of periodicals are arranged in order. For example, "4(3):23 1-239" means that the volume number is 4, the issue number is 3, and the starting page number of the paper is 23 1, and the ending page number is 239.

Consequences of citing non-compliance with specifications

Failure to meet the reference specifications may cause the following problems:

Missing or wrong reference. This may lead to inaccurate or completely invalid results of academic research.

Academic misconduct. It is considered a serious academic misconduct to copy other people's research results without indicating references.

The problem of writing quality. Because references constitute a collection of resources and mutual confirmation in the research process, if the references are not standardized, it is likely that the research results will not be better evaluated.

abstract

References play an important role in academic research. When compiling references, we must adopt different sorting methods according to different publication types.

If the references are not standardized, it will affect your research results to get a better evaluation. Therefore, when writing papers, reports or works, we must pay attention to the standardization of references.